Tom Hanks famously said in “A League of Their Own,” “There’s no crying in baseball.” And Richard Phillips — who was kidnapped at sea by Somali pirates, and is played by Hanks in new film “Captain Phillips” — told us he didn’t break down in front of his captors.

“I would never let them see me cry,” said Phillips, who still bears the scars from being tied up in the 2009 ordeal, before a premiere at the New York Film Festival on Friday. “Maybe I cried at 5 in the morning when no one was looking.”

Hanks appeared onstage to introduce the film, but then hopped on a jet back to Hollywood and skipped the following NYFF opening gala (known by New York film nerds as “indie prom.”) Spotted at a VIP dinner before the screening and Harvard Club after-party were Naomi Watts, director Paul Greengrass, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Rose Kuo, board member Austin Hearst and director Simon Curtis, in town filming Vanessa Redgrave in ABC’s “The Black Box.”

Sony execs were there in full force to support the movie — amid a studio shake-up — including Michael Lynton, Amy Pascal and Jeff Blake. “Blue Jasmine” distributors Michael Barker and Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics also attended.